DH200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Roberto Busa, Lemmatisation, Digital Humanities
6 Apr 2019
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Emergence of digital humanities" broad developments over second half of twentieth century. Important for government and business also for news. Uses in public and private life- by now a mundane pervasive reality. Deeply embedded in everything we do; how we communicate and tell stories within this digital world. Over centuries of technological development people/scholars have engaged with and adapted to those changes. Begging of digital humanities are linked to roberto busa and index thomisticus. Sought out head of ibm in 1949 to aid indexing works of thomas aquinas for text searches. Project lasted decades with printed volumes (1970s) cd-rom (1989) and online versions (2000s) Groups words with lemmatization easier to find words you"re looking for. Digital libraries and ebooks . project gutenburg (1971) and. Make available public domain works in plain text. Began on arpanet- connected computer, early part of internet. Transcribing page by page- instead can scan individual pages.
